Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:16:01 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage" |
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Oleg Verych wrote: > Hallo, Ingo. > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:07:07AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > To clarify. `Scrollback' here is *useful* scrollback during early boot > and OOPs (which is absent, AFAIK), "nothing like that" is coloring of the > messages by loglevel. > >> even if it were true (which it isnt), that is not an argument against >> including a useful change that exists now and that people are interested >> in. > > Coloring isn't useful. If it was, it would be implemented ~16 years ago.
So anything that wasn't implemented a decade ago is not useful? Virtual machines, software raid, fair scheduling, jumbo packets, SMT/SMP/NUMA support, support for >4GB physical memory on x86, all fluff? > >> (and yes, i have implemented kernel console improvements in the past >> and vga scrollback support was in fact amongst one of my first ever >> Linux kernel hacks so your comment is doubly wrong.) > > This `scrollback' is usual late boot / console one. If fact useful, > until first tty switch or if `screen` cannot be used. But for some > reason if scrolling region (DECSTBM) is less than whole screen, nothing > works. And if width set to odd number of columns > > `stty columns $((80-1))` > > whole output becomes somewhat funny.
I think by the time you get up enough to be running ill-advised commands from shell, you are past "early boot." Your comments about scrollback not working right if you break it are hopefully an attempt at humor.
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